Kinematics Mechanism Design Menu Bar

Kinematics Mechanism Design includes various menus and menu commands. Tasks corresponding to general menu commands are described in the Infrastructure User's Guide.

PLM Access

The PLM Access menu lets you create mechanism representations and perform non-specific operations such as search, propagate, and export.

New

See Creating Mechanism Representations

Advanced Search

See Searching

Propagate

See Propagating Objects

Export/Import

See Exporting Data to 3D XML

See Importing 3D XML Files

Print

See Printing Objects

Edit

The Edit menu lets you control editability for mechanisms.

Paste Special

See Pasting Objects as Special

Find

See Selecting Using the Find... Command in General Mode

Links and Relations

See Editing Links and Relations in the VPM Editor User's Guide

Editability

See Editability

Insert

The Insert menu lets you insert new engineering connections and mechanisms representations.

Engineering Connection

See Creating Engineering Connections for Mechanisms

Mechanism Representation

See Mechanism Representations

Analyze

The Analyze menu lets you study degrees of freedom, review the configuration of your mechanism, and set a mechanism's nominal position.

Degree(s) of freedom

See About Degrees of Freedom

Mechanism Manager

See About the Mechanism Manager

See Engineering Connections and Degrees of Freedom

Mechanism Animation Mode

See Setting a Mechanism's Nominal Position